57466 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 23, 2023 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036443; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Arizona State Museum, 

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Arizona State Museum (ASM), 

University of Arizona, intends to 

repatriate certain cultural items that 

meet the definition of unassociated 

funerary objects and that have a cultural 

affiliation with the Indian Tribes or 

Native Hawaiian organizations in this 

notice. The cultural items were removed 

from Santa Barbara County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

September 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Cristin Lucas, Repatriation 

Coordinator, Arizona State Museum, 

1013 E University Boulevard, Tucson, 

AZ 85721–0026, telephone (520) 626– 

0320, email lucasc@arizona.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the ASM. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records held 

by the ASM. 

Description 

On an unknown date in 1925, 70 

cultural items were removed from 

LOMPOC:1:2(GP) in Santa Barbara 

County, CA. The cultural items were 

collected by Frank McCoy, owner of the 

Santa Maria Inn, and were said to have 

come from a burial. Catalog records 

indicate that archeologist Harold S. 

Gladwin acquired the items from McCoy 

in 1925. Gladwin was a resident of 

Santa Barbara before founding the Gila 

Pueblo Archaeology Foundation in 

Globe, AZ, in the late 1920s. Gladwin 

lived at the Foundation off and on 

throughout its active years until he 

dissolved the institution in the late1940s. In 1951, most of the Foundation’s 

collections, including the 70 cultural 

items listed here, were transferred to 

ASM. The 70 unassociated funerary 

objects are one projectile point, one 

biface, 66 ground stone ornaments, one 

shell ring, and one shark tooth. 

On an unknown date prior to 1936, 

one cultural item was removed from an 

unknown site north of Santa Barbara, 

Santa Barbara County, CA. The cultural 

item was collected by Carl Miller and is 

noted to have been recovered from 

‘‘Burial 24.’’ In 1936, the item was 

donated to ASM by Mr. and Mrs. 

Wetmore Hodges in 1936, who 

presumably had received it from Miller. 

The one unassociated funerary object is 

a shell necklace. 

In the mid-1920s, three cultural items 

were removed from a site designated as 

Santa Barbara:13(GP), a site recorded by 

the Gila Pueblo Archaeological 

Foundation. The original 

documentation of the site recorded its 

name as ‘‘Amolomal’’ and ‘‘Burton 

Mound,’’ and described its location as 

being ‘‘at the foot of Chapala St., on the 

site once occupied by the Potter Hotel.’’ 

Harrington (1928) lists Syujtun (also 

Syuxtun [Gamble 2008]) as the 

indigenous name for the Burton Mound 

site, while Rogers (1929) describes 

Siuhtun, Burton Mound, and Amolomol 

as separate sites. Recent publications 

(Gamble 2008; McDaniel Wilcox 2013) 

use the site number CA–SBA–28 for the 

mound and recognize it as having been 

the location of Syuxtun. The original 

catalog card for these items is undated, 

but the early catalog number suggests 

that they were likely collected in the 

mid-1920s by archeologist Harold S. 

Gladwin, who founded the Gila Pueblo 

Archaeology Foundation. In 1951, most 

of the Foundation’s collections, 

including the three items listed here, 

were transferred to ASM. The three 

unassociated funerary objects are one 

fossil, one crystal, and one shell, all 

unmodified. 

In 1926, one cultural item was 

removed from a site designated as Santa 

Barbara:4(GP), a site recorded by the 

Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation. 

The catalog card describes the site as a 

village located on Higgins Ranch, 

southeast of Carpinteria and adjoining 

the Carpinteria tar-pit, between the 

Coast Highway and the beach. The item 

was collected in 1926 by archeologist 

Harold S. Gladwin, who founded the 

Gila Pueblo Archaeology Foundation. In 

1951, most of the Foundation’s 

collections, including the one item 

listed here, were transferred to ASM. 

The one unassociated funerary object is 

a bifacial tool. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

archeological, geographical, and 

historical. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the ASM has determined 

that: 

• The 75 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash 

Mission Indians of the Santa Ynez 

Reservation, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after September 22, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the ASM must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of the cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The ASM is 

responsible for sending a copy of this 

notice to the Indian Tribe identified in 

this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, § 10.10, and 

§ 10.14. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 162 / Wednesday, August 23, 2023 / Notices 57467 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18141 Filed 8–22–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036435; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: San Francisco State University 

Native American Graves Protection 

and Repatriation Act Program, San 

Francisco, CA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the San 

Francisco State University NAGPRA 

Program intends to repatriate certain 

cultural items that meet the definition of 

unassociated funerary objects and 

objects of cultural patrimony and that 

have a cultural affiliation with the 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The 

cultural items were removed from 

Humboldt County, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the cultural items 

in this notice may occur on or after 

September 22, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Zay D. Latt, San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program, 1600 Holloway 

Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94132, 

telephone (415) 405–3545, email zlatt@

sfsu.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the summary or related records held 

by the San Francisco State NAGPRA 

Program. 

Description 

Eight objects of cultural patrimony 

were donated to the Tregenza Museum 

at San Francisco State University in the 

1960s and 1970s. When the Treganza 

Anthropology Museum closed in 2012, 

all the Native American items were 

transferred to the San Francisco State 

University NAGPRA Program. The 

objects of cultural patrimony are eight 

Wiyot baskets from the Northwest 

California Coast. They consist of two 

round bowl baskets and one twined 

eating bowl donated by Elsa Korbel in 

1968; one twined gift basket, one twin 

with knob lid, one twined open gift 

basket, and one twined cooking bowl 

donated by M. Molarsky; and one 

twined gift basket donated by the San 

Mateo Historical Society. 

In 1966, 45 unassociated funerary 

objects were removed by Robert 

Ostrovsky and Robert Schenk from sites 

CA–HUM–207, CA–HUM–208, CA– 

HUM–211, CA–HUM–213, CA–HUM– 

214, CA–HUM–215, CA–HUM–216, and 

CA–HUM-Butler Valley as part of 

archeological site documentation in an 

area along Butler Valley Reservoir, in 

Humboldt County, CA. These cultural 

items were stored in the San Francisco 

State College Anthropology Collection 

and subsequently became part of the 

archeological collection of the Treganza 

Anthropology Museum at San Francisco 

State University (TAM). Upon closure of 

TAM in 2012, the objects were 

transferred to the San Francisco State 

University NAGPRA program. The 45 

unassociated funerary objects are one 

spatulate hammer stone, one possible 

metate fragment, two shell fragments, 

and three worked chert pieces from CA– 

HUM–207; one stone mano from CA– 

HUM–208; one hopper mortar pestle 

from CA–HUM–211; one small hammer 

stone, one hopper mortar, and one small 

milling stone from CA–HUM–213; one 

small round stone, nine chert pieces, 

one possible bowl mortar fragment, one 

small hammer stone, one small mano, 

and one mano-hammer stone from CA– 

HUM–214; three soapstone pieces, one 

grey chert scraper, and 11 chert scrapers 

from CA–HUM–215; one worked red 

chert and one red chert scrapper from 

CA–HUM–216; and two groundstones 

from CA-Hum-Butler Valley. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The cultural items in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

information were used to reasonably 

trace the relationship: anthropological, 

geographical, historical, and other 

relevant information or expert opinion. 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program has determined that: 

• The 45 cultural items described 

above are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony and are believed, by a 

preponderance of the evidence, to have 

been removed from a specific burial site 

of a Native American individual. 

• The eight cultural items described 

above have ongoing historical, 

traditional, or cultural importance 

central to the Native American group or 

culture itself, rather than property 

owned by an individual. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the cultural items and 

the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville 

Rancheria, California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Additional, written requests for 

repatriation of the cultural items in this 

notice must be sent to the Responsible 

Official identified in ADDRESSES. 

Requests for repatriation may be 

submitted by any lineal descendant, 

Indian Tribe, or Native Hawaiian 

organization not identified in this notice 

who shows, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, that the requestor is a lineal 

descendant or a culturally affiliated 

Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian 

organization. 

Repatriation of the cultural items in 

this notice to a requestor may occur on 

or after September 22, 2023. If 

competing requests for repatriation are 

received, the San Francisco State 

NAGPRA Program must determine the 

most appropriate requestor prior to 

repatriation. Requests for joint 

repatriation of cultural items are 

considered a single request and not 

competing requests. The San Francisco 

State NAGPRA Program is responsible 

for sending a copy of this notice to the 

Indian Tribe identified in this notice. 

Authority: Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 

U.S.C. 3003, and the implementing 

regulations, 43 CFR 10.8, 10.10, and 

10.14. 

Dated: August 16, 2023. 

Melanie O’Brien, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18134 Filed 8–22–23; 8:45 am] 

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